Fiction

Douglas Adams — The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

Ray Bradbury — Fahrenheit 411 (1953)

Anthony Burgess — A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Albert Camus — The Outsider (1942)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Crime and Punishment (1866)

William Faulkner — As I Lay Dying (1930)

Graham Greene — Brighton Rock (1938)

S.E. Hinton — The Outsiders (1967)

Joseph Heller — Catch 22 (1961)

Ernest Hemingway — For Whom the Bells Tolls (1940)

Ernest Hemingway — A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Aldous Huxley — Brave New World (1931)

Franz Kafka — The Metamorphosis (1915)

Harper Lee — To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)

Gabriel García Márquez — One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

Cormac McCarthy — The Road (2006)

Cormac McCarthy — No Country for Old Men (2005)

Tommy Orange — There There (2018)

George Orwell — 1984 (1949)

George Orwell — Animal Farm (1945)

George Orwell — The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)

Chuck Palahniuk — Fight Club (1996)

W.G. Sebald — Austerlitz (2001)

Mary Shelley — Frankenstein (1818)

John Steinbeck — Of Mice and Men (1937)

John Steinbeck — The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

John Steinbeck — Cannery Row (1945)

Robert Louis Stevenson — Treasure Island (1883)

Elie Wiesel — Night (1960)

Kurt Vonnegut — Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Kurt Vonnegut — Cat’s Cradle (1963)

Non-Fiction

Svetlana Alexievich — Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997)

Hannah Arendt — Men in Dark Times (1968)

Antony Beevor — Stalingrad (1998)

Dee Brown — Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (1970)

Christopher R. Browning — Ordinary Men (1992)

Bill Bryson — A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)

Iris Chang — The Rape of Nanking (1997)

Andrew Fisher — William Wallace (1986)

Stephen Hawking — A Brief History of Time (1988)

John Hersey — Hiroshima (1946)

Christopher Hitchens — Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)

Stephen King — On Writing (2000)

Alfred Lansing — Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)

Claude Lanzmann — Shoah (1985)

Eric Lomax — The Railway Man (1995)

Sinclair McCay — The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombings of Dresden, 1945

James M. McPherson — Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)

Farley Moway — And No Birds Sang (1979)

Elaine Scarry — The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1987)

W.G. Sebald — On the Natural History of Destruction (1999)

Susan Sontag — Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

Barbara Tuchman — The Guns of August (1962)

Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching (6th Century BC)

Memoir

Mitch Albom — Tuesdays with Morrie (2000)

Anthony Bourdain — Kitchen Confidential (2000)

Susannah Cahalan — Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (2012)

John Cooper Clarke — I Wanna Be Yours (2020)

Anne Frank — The Diary of a Young Girl (1952)

David Goggins — Can’t Hurt Me (2018)

Robert Graves — Goodbye to All That (1929)

Ernst Junger — Storm of Steel (1920)

Sebastian Junger — War (2010)

Wab Kinew — The Reason You Walk (2015)

Primo Levi — The Drowned and the Saved (1986)

Frank McCourt - Angela’s Ashes (1996)

Norm MacDonald — Based on a True Story (2016)

Guy Sajer — The Forgotten Soldier (1965)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn — One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Art Spiegelmann — Maus I & II (1980-1991)

Tara Westover — Educated (2018)

Art and Visual Culture

Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith — Lynching Photographs (2007)

Roland Barthes — Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1981)

Rebecca Bengal — Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists (2023)

Jill Bennett — Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (2005)

John Berger — Ways of Seeing (1978)

Richard Billingham — Ray’s a Laugh (1995)

Larry Clark — Tulsa (1971)

Guy Debord — The Society of the Spectacle (1967)

Robert Frank — The Americans (1958)

Nan Goldin — The Ballad of Sexual Dependancy (1986)

Dick Hebdige — Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979)

Dave Hickey — Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997)

Naomi Klein — No Logo (1999)

Miwon Kwon — One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (2002)

Susan Sontag — On Photography (1977)

James R. Stevens and Carl Ray — Sacred Legends of the Sandy Lake Cree (1971)

John Tagg — The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning (2009)

Jan Verwoert — Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous (2006)